Bio: Maria Fafard is a Certified Professional Facilitator, executive coach, speaker, and Agile coach who loves helping teams and individuals reach their potential. She speaks on facilitation, coaching, thought leadership, career strategy, and Agile mindset, blogs at http://linkedintellect.wordpress.com and has 4,000+ highly engaged connections on LinkedIn. She has 18+ years of experience in Finance, IT, and consulting including Fortune 200 experience; 11+ years of experience in facilitation and coaching; and 5+ years of experience in Agile space. She is a sought after, high energy, enthusiastic speaker and facilitator, and is passionate about psychology, creativity and thought leadership. She is a Certified Professional Facilitator(CPF), ICAgile Certified Professional-Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF), ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), CSM, CSPO, and SPM/PO (SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner)

schedule 1 week ago

45 mins

Talk

Intermediate

ABSTRACT: Do you aspire to masterfully facilitate Agile ceremonies? To empower your team to collaborate more effectively? To make meetings more productive and exciting? Then this workshop is for you!

… Ability to skillfully facilitate Agile ceremonies is one of the core competencies of a great Scrum Master. And yet, when organizations undergo Agile transformation, facilitation training for Scrum Masters is rarely a priority. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this sometimes results in dreadfully boring, low energy meetings where everybody is going through the motions without achieving the results and the team is not functioning anywhere near its full potential.

This session shows you how to avoid this and to take productivity of your meetings and your team’s collaboration powers to a new level. It covers the basics of being a terrific facilitator, the mechanics of facilitating Scrum ceremonies, and ways to take your facilitation powers to the next level.

The speaker is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) certified by the International Association of Facilitators as well as ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) and Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: My talk about facilitation at Capital One Scrum Master Summit in 2016 was the most popular session of the summit with 69 people signing up in advance and many more attending (which shows a great deal of interest in this topic in our Scrum Master community). I delivered the talk three times in one day. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Below are the results of the survey (34 people completed the survey): How would you rate this session? 4.75/5 (.95) | How effective were the presenter's presentation skills? 4.8 (.96) | How useful was the information presented at this event? 4.76/5 (.95) | How experienced in the subject was the presenter? 4.9/5 (.98)

schedule 2 years ago

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45 mins

Talk

Intermediate

Are you ready to take control of your career in Agile space? Then this session is for you! Learn to build your personal brand, establish your career goals and reach them using an Agile mindset. The session is equally relevant for beginning and experienced Agilists, for people in the midst of an active job hunt and these who have already secured their dream position but are not sure how to take their career to the next level.

Learn how to job hunt like a pro and how to attract recruiters and hiring managers instead of relying on job applications; how to seek and secure a promotion; how to insure your Agile career; and how to network in a powerful and focused way.

Find out how to leverage the power of social media in your brand building efforts, including the ultimate brand building and career management tool, LinkedIn: develop and maintain a strong LinkedIn profile that includes an Agile work portfolio, a powerful Summary, and a results oriented Experience section; develop an ongoing engagement with Agile LinkedIn community using status updates, LinkedIn publishing platform and Agile groups and grow and nurture your network. Bonus: you will learn about making the first steps towards thought leadership.